Sam Lowry said:
Redbrickbear said:
Sam Lowry said:
Redbrickbear said:
Sam Lowry said:
Redbrickbear said:
Sam Lowry said:
The GOP is a full-on fascist cult at this point. Sad to see..
Buddy please read something about real fascism
The GOP in America is nothing of the kind
It is absolutely opposed to government control of all aspects of the economy and totally opposed to totalitarian thought control
It's controlling aspects of the economy and deporting people for thought crimes right now.
Every government exerts some influence on the economy
(Yes tariffs are an example of this)
That does not make the modern USA, UK, France, or others like them "Fascist"
And sending illegals home for any reason is not "thought crime" its simple good policy
Both Fascism and Communism required citizens to believe what the party believed or face death or imprisonment and both wanted total control of the economy in a top down controlled socialist way
The modern Republican party is NOTHING like that nor does it advocate for those ideas
I don't think tariffs are fascist. I'm just going along with the nit-picky definitions game that everyone likes to play whenever the term comes up.
Deporting legally resident grad students for having the wrong opinions on Israel and Hamas is a different matter.
The government reserves the right to end a student visa if the said student is engaged in disruptive behavior
People like that are guests in the USA….they don't have any inherent right to be in America
And I say that as someone who had has plenty of criticism for Israel and thinks they exert far to much power over our political system.
But at the end of the day their is nothing "fascist" about sending a foreign student home
I guess we can take comfort in the knowledge that fascist regimes historically draw the line at thought policing their own citizens.
We have crossed that line.
Dallas lawyer has been known to advise undocumented folks on business matters. He was asked to help a family with one detained member, an undocumented mom, one DACA child and one citizen child.
He went over, less than an hour, explained that he isn't an immigration lawyer but gave them some broad info about their rights.
Working from home his VPN goes down. Then he gets The Knock. Two guys in slacks and polos with no badges or insignia question him. He asks for their names and agency. They refuse. They tell him they are investigating a possible interference in an ICE matter. He says no thanks and closes the door.
Discombobulated, he decides to look at his Ring camera video to see if he missed a badge or insignia. But there is no Ring video.
Turns out his WiFi had been disabled for thirty minutes, fifteen either side of The Knock.
This is intimidation of a smaller scale than the shake down of Big Law, but that just makes it more concerning.
In a 1933 way.
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